Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness… — Grace Coolidge Copy Share Image
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago… I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“There are meetings in books that stand out, that alter the course of the story. Profound encounters between characters when one soul… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Close Encounters' really showed the world what can be accomplished when a filmmaker and composer are cooperating closely. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've had some very close encounters with the other side. They chose me to do this - I was doing this all… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
